[pxc]

I wouldn't say I particularly like bash, bash has seen a ton of improvements since Apple stopped updating the vendored version. Using that old bash which is frozen for non-technical reasons just seems stupid to me.

If you don't want bash-specific features, you might as well use zsh or dash or whatever lives in /bin/sh. If you do want bash-specific features, you might as well take advantage of the latest and greatest.

On that note, on my Macs, the bash I want is usually /opt/pkg/bin/bash or /run/current-system/sw/bin/bash :)